Jake Lynch
is associate professor and Chair of the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney. Jointly with Annabel McGoldrick, he won the 2017 Luxembourg Peace Prize for his 20 years of work in peace journalism, both as a practitioner in training editors and reporters in conflict zones, and as the most published and most cited author in the field. Before taking up an academic post, Jake enjoyed a successful career in professional journalism, mostly in UK media, including as a Political Correspondent for Sky News, at Westminster; and the Sydney Correspondent for the Independent newspaper, culminating in a role as an on-air presenter for bbc World Television News.
Samuel Peleg
is a political sociologist trained in the fields of comparative politics and international relations. His areas of expertise are peace-building & reconciliation, justice & human rights, and conflict resolution. Dr. Peleg teaches political science at Rutgers University- the State University of New Jersey. Between 2009â2013 he was a visiting faculty member at the negotiation and conflict resolution program (necr) at Columbia University. He is the author of several books and articles, among them Spreading the Wrath of God (Hebrew, Red Line Publications 1997); Zealotry and Vengeance: A Quest of Religious Identity Group (Lexington Books 2002); If Words Could Kill: the Failure of Public Discourse in Israel (Hebrew University 2003), and Fighting Terrorism in the Liberal State (iol Press 2006). His new book Intercultural and Inter-Faith Dialogue will be published in 2018.
Yasemin Giritli Ä°nceoÄlu
is a Professor of Journalism. She worked as an academic in Marmara University (1984â2004) and Galatasaray University (2004â2016). She was the former dean of the Galatasaray University, Communication Faculty. She is a member of the unesco International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen and of the American Biography Institute. She is one of the founder members of the Media Watch Platform in Turkey (2008). She is also the member of Advisory Board of Media Disclaimer Center, Association for Social Policies Sexual Identity and Sexual Orientation and Transparency International. Since 2016, she works on Media Pluralism Monitor Turkey Project that is by supported by Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom and European Commission, financed by the European Union. Her current research interests are based on hate speech and hate crimes in the media, international communication, media pluralism and peace journalism.
TirÅe Erbaysal Filibeli
received her Ph.D. from Galatasaray University, Doctoral Program in Media and Communication Studies. She worked as special rapporteur for Hrant Dink Foundation and wrote a report entitled A New Discourse, Dialogue, and Democracy Against Discrimination in 2016. Since 2016, She works on the Media Pluralism Monitor Turkey Project that is supported by Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (cmpf) and European Commission, financed by European Union. She works as an assistant professor and the chair of the Department of New Media at BahçeÅehir University in Istanbul. Her research interests focus on journalism studies, peace journalism, peace discourse, hate speech and media pluralism.
Rukhsana Aslam
is an independent scholar living in New Zealand with more than twenty years of experience as a journalist and an academic. She has her doctorate on the role of media in conflict with focus on integrating peace journalism in the journalism curriculum, from the Auckland University of Technology (aut), New Zealand. Currently associated with the aut as visiting faculty member, she does consultancy on peace journalism projects internationally. She was also the recipient of Asia-New Zealand Foundationâs Asian Journalism Fellowship Award in 2011 and has published widely.
Sevda AlankuÅ
works as a full professor at YaÅar University, Faculty of Communication. She graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the area of Political Science and Public Administration at the same university. She continued her academic studies at Leeds University in the years between 1988â89. She worked as academic at Ege and Ankara universities in the years between 1982â1999. She worked as dean at Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies in the years between 1999â2008, and Ä°zmir University of Economy, Faculty of Communication in the years between 2008â2013. She is the education advisor for Independent Communication Network (bia) as of 1998. She undertook editorship of most of 16 books published by ips Foundation Publishing. Her research areas consist of subjects such as alternative media, peace journalism, feminist media critique.
Annabel McGoldrick
is an academic, advocate, activist, peace journalist and psychotherapist. She won the 2017 Luxembourg Peace Prize (jointly with Jake Lynch) for her 20 years of work in peace journalism, both as a practitioner in training editors and reporters in conflict zones, and as one of the most published and most cited authors in the field. She enjoyed a successful career in professional journalism, with roles as a reporter for sbs World News Australia, and in regional television and radio in the UK, where she also produced the groundbreaking bbc documentary, Against the War, presented by Harold Pinter. Annabel is a fully accredited trauma psychotherapist in private practice, with almost 20 yearsâ experience treating post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) and complex trauma in individuals and facilitating family reconciliations at Australiaâs leading treatment centre, South Pacific Private Hospital.
Shabbir Hussain
started his professional career as a newspaper reporter and then joined the countryâs main public sector television station. After working as a documentary producer for five years, he went into university teaching, and at present he is an Assistant Professor at International Islamic University, Islamabad. He has published more than a dozen research articles and book chapters in recognized journals on issues relating to peace journalism in Pakistan. Dr. Hussain is also a trainer in peace journalism practice and regularly arranges training sessions for journalists. Currently he is working on a research project to develop a more contextual and non-Western theoretical model for peace journalism. His main research areas are: philosophy of communication, conflict communication, peace journalism and political communication.
Ece Algan
is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Media & Creative Industries at Loughborough University in London. She is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies and the Director of the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at California State University at San Bernardino. She has conducted longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork research on local media, mobile communication, youth and social change for over a decade in Southeast Turkey and published several journal articles and book chapters. She serves on editorial and advisory boards of Journal of International Communication, Global Media Journalâs Mediterranean Edition, Open Cultural Studies and Moment: Journal of Cultural Studies.
Maria Ahmad
is former broadcast journalist and journalism trainer. She has reported on international, disaster, political, conflict and terrorist events, with Internews Network, bbc Radio, Canadian TV, Pakistanâs State TV & geo TV. With a M.A. in Anthropology of Communication, sheâs contributed to the Human Rights Watch report on Pakistan Elections and is the Technical contributor to the International Organization for Migrationâs âCommunicating with Communities.â Currently in Mozambique, she trains and works as a communications specialist.
Aradhana Sharma
is a journalist from India, she has worked for over 12 years in both television and print media in her country. A masters in Peace and Conflict Journalism, she subsequently worked on a Media Law project at the Centre for Culture Media and Governance at Jamia Millia Islamia (University) in Delhi under which she conducted archival, research and pedagogical work. She has also taught media studies at under-graduate level at the Delhi University. She currently lives in Israel, does independent media research, and occasionally writes on media affairs.
Marianne Perez de Fransius
is an educator and peace worker specialized in peace media. Her article, âPeace Journalism Case Study: us Media Coverage of the Iraq War,â [Journalism, 2014, vol. 15 (1): 72â88] is the first piece about peace journalism to appear in the premier academic journal Journalism : Theory, Practice and Criticism. She currently resides in Argentina and is developing a peace superheroes digital game. Previously, she lived in Mozambique where, among other things, she trained local journalists in Conflict Sensitive Election Reporting.
Meah Mostafiz
is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, at the University of Heidelberg and South Asia Institute, Germany. Prior to coming to Heidelberg Meah earned his M.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies from the European Peace University â epu Austria, worked as a Public Affairs intern at the International Criminal Court â icc, in The Hague. Born and raised in Bangladesh, Meah started working as a Television Journalist after finishing undergraduate degree. As a journalist he won two European awards; Swedish Governmentâs sida and the Netherlands Govt. Fellowship.
Steven Youngblood
is the founding director of the Center for Global Peace Journalism at Park University in Parkville, Missouri usa, where he is a communications professor. He has organized and taught peace journalism seminars and workshops around the world, including Austria, Cameroon, Rep. of Georgia, Kuwait, Ireland, South Sudan, Cyprus, Lebanon, Kashmir/India, United States, Sierra Leone, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Ethiopia, Germany, Kenya, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, South Africa, Costa Rica, Turkey, and Uganda. Youngblood is a two-time J. William Fulbright Scholar (Moldova 2001, Azerbaijan 2007), and author of Peace Journalism Principles and Practices (Routledge, New York, 2017) and Professor Komagum: Teaching Peace Journalism and Battling Insanity in Uganda (Unlimited Publishing LLC, 2012). He edits The Peace Journalist magazine, and produces the Peace Journalism Insights blog. He has been recognized for his contributions to world peace by the US State Department, Rotary International, and the UN Association of Kansas City.